Akai DVDRW120 Progressive-Scan DVD Player/Recorder

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Summary: Such A Deal
Review: I have this Akai DVDRW120. I bought it because of the Secret Menu. I have used it for about a month and it has worked flawlessly. The copies it makes are like the origonals. I searched for another on the entire Internet. I bought the last one from Amazon. I am hopeful that it will work as well as the one I have.

The menus are easy, the formatting easier. It looks good and works great. I may have the last "new" unit in existance because I searched high and low including ebay, where I got my first unit.

I will write more when I receive my 2nd unit from Amazon.

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Summary: Excellent value DVD recorder
Review: I've had this DVD recorder for a week and so far it has done very well. I have had no problem recording from DirecTV.
I have been using KHypermedia DVD +R discs and the recordings play fine on my Apex AD 1500 and my Compaq R3000 laptop.
(You need to finalize your DVD +R disc before playing on other players)
From what I read on the web, this unit is identical to Daytek DVR-P30 and is a rebadged Liteon 5001 with a cooling fan.
The main drawback is the inability to edit recordings to to filter commercials etc.
Overall I am very happy with this purchase and hope it continues to perform well.

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Summary: So Far, So Good
Review: Just recieved this unit a few days ago and have transferred some of my recorded VHS tapes (movies) to DVD+R discs with no problem. Had to read the instructions over several times and finally got it all figured out and it was off to the races. Bought a 10 pack of Maxell DVD+Rs and the results are fantastic at SP speed. However, dvds will not play on my current dvd player, not the fault of the unit, will have to get a newer player that plays DVD+R and DVD+RW dvds, I see several players listed at Amazon that will play them in today's world, so that will solve that minor problem. This is all I have done so far with the unit and it was the main purpose of me buying it... it was a good price, good brand name and I wanted my tapes transferred to a more permanent storage medium as quick as possible. It makes chapter marks at any time you want.... I have chapters every 10 minutes, thinking of changing it to 6 minutes. I want to get a few blank DVD+RWs to test some tapes first before using a permanent +R blank. I have no complaints yet... I hope it's around working years from now, it's all I will need .... will hook it up to cable to use as a digital VCR with the +RWs, but my priority now is to get my tapes onto +Rs first.

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Summary: Not recommend it, returned mine
Review: Not a good, easy to use, reliable and quality product (Yes still has a good price, but for me it doesn't worth it, I pay a little more to get a keeper not something for 2 weeks of Olympics). Look elsewhere since there is a good bunch of new and better DVD-recorders out there.

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Summary: Anyone else with the same trouble
Review: Read an earler review stating that this unit isn't compatible with DishNetwork and/or DirectTV.Of course I bought the unit before reading that review and have had some interference on my TV picture-(wavy lines) ever since I hooked it up to my DishNtwork system.It records some TV shows fine-without the interference-but now the interference seems to be getting worse and showing up on the recordings.Wondering if the unit is defective or that it isn't compatible with DishNetwork-so would like to know if anyone else has had similar troubles.
Otherwise,have made several copies of VHS tapes that came out very well,with only a couple of problems.One of getting half way thru making a copy (twice) recorded on LP speed that would stop recording and ruin the disc as a reading of 'Fail' would show up when I tried to replay the disc.


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Summary: Akai DVDRW120
Review: This unit records great until it finalizes the disk, at this point you can get really bad artificks and blocking with dvd stopping and hard to read.
I find from the menu it is a Liteon clone for parts, so don't waste your money on this unit.